Amazing Chinese Characters (729）Moreover - 且

The shell bone script of character Moreover is

A male genital, ancient Chinese had reproduction-worship, male genital was the organ of worship. How it means "Moreover" is unknown.

However, Mr. Wu Zheng who is an expert in shell bone script research, recently (2026) pointed out that the character is not male genital, but ancient hoe. At this moment, I agree with him more, but not confirmed yet. Therefore, I show both explanations.

The bronze script of character Moreover is

The top is sharp, not rounded, unlike the real genital.

The big seal script of character Moreover is

Similar to bronze script with significant less sharp.

The clerical script of character Moreover is

More like shell bone script.

The clerical script of character Moreover is

All strokes are straight lines with sharp turning points.

The Pinyin of the character is Qie3.